Keiko Hiratsuka Moore

Keiko Hiratsuka is the daughter of the noted Japanese woodblock printmaker, Un'ichi Hiratsuka. She started making prints at age five in Japan. She studied under her father at Hiratsuka Hanga Kenkyusho (Institute). She came to the United States in 1952, and was director of Hiratsuka Nippon Gallery from 1958 to m1962 where she devoted herself to promoting various Japanese arts, particularly woodblock prints. She has taught privately since 1958 and has exhibited at and received prizes from such places as Japan Print Society, Albany Print Club, Boston Printmakers, Washington Printmakers, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cleveland Art Museum, and Williamsburg, Virginia. Mrs. Moore has been giving lecture-demonstrations with and without her father since 1956 at various universities, art organizations and women's clubs. She and her father lived in Georgetown (Washington, DC) for a time. (Submitted in 2011).